Aalto Networking Platform

Networking at Aalto

Aalto Networking Platform

The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.

About us

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Platform services for Aalto community

Events and service support for the Aalto academic community

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Platform services for partners

Find the right experts and actions for your needs

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Mission and vision

Our key activities focus on bringing researchers together and supporting multi- and cross-disciplinary initiatives

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Highlights

Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.

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BatteryMonetizer - Electricity trader challenge

Hear about the design of an invisible intelligence and participate in a challenge!

Events
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 hero image. Graphic design Veera Kemppainen.

Designs for a Cooler Planet

Open exhibitions and events in Otaniemi from 6 Sept to 6 Oct 2023 with the theme Invisible – what don't we see even though we should?

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Hydrogen Breakfast Series - Event 1: Introduction

In this first event in the Hydrogen Breakfast series, we will give an overview of the Aalto Hydrogen Innovation Center. The event combines speakers from Aalto Academics & Industry.

Events

Key research areas

Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.

Key Research Area: Advanced energy solutions

The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.

View of Helsinki by night. Photo by Ioannis Koulousis.

Key Research Area: Arts and design knowledge-building

Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in art and design knowledge building.

In Tension 4 Photo by_ Eeva Suorlahti

Key Research Area: ICT and digitalisation

Digital technologies like AI and 5G cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.

Aalto X Reality Keynote PiP by Matti Ahlgren

Key Research Area: Global business dynamics

Research related to global economy dynamics is carried out in the areas of business, economics, and industrial engineering and management.

General image of people gathered at Slush startup event, photo by Mikko Raskinen

Key Research Area: Health and wellbeing

Health and wellbeing focus areas include biomedical engineering, neuroscience, biomaterials, digital health, and health management and design.

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Key Research Area: Human-centred living environments

Research in this area aims to understand how individuals experience their physical environment and how art, spaces, buildings and communities can enhance it.

Kokoon modular living system is made of wood. Photo: Tuomas Uusheimo

Key Research Area: Materials and sustainable use of natural resources

Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.

An abstract composition of different metals and forms.
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Related events

All upcoming events related to the Aalto Networking Platform.

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Lectures and seminars

Solar breakthrough seminar

Come and meet the 2022 Millennium Technology Prize winner Prof. Martin Green
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Lectures and seminars

Creative Technologies

The theme of the next seminar is AI for Games.
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Lectures and seminars

Hydrogen Breakfast Series - Event 1: Introduction

In this first event in the Hydrogen Breakfast series, we will give an overview of the Aalto Hydrogen Innovation Center. The event combines speakers from Aalto Academics & Industry.
MAX IV - ESS workshop
Lectures and seminars

MAX IV & ESS Workshop

Learn how to benefit from advanced X-ray and neutron techniques in bio-based materials research.
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Related news

All news related to the Aalto Networking Platform.

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Research & Art, Studies Published:

ELLIS Distinguished Lectures bring outstanding AI researchers to greater Helsinki

Students can earn credits by attending the seminar series.
Lennart Engels, Karolin Kull, Ágnes László, Julia Postrzech and Valenti Soler won the Habitare Design competition 2023.
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Team of Interior Architecture and Contemporary Design students won the Habitare Design competition 2023

The Habitare Design Competition is intended for students studying art, design, and architecture in Finland. This year ‘s theme of the competition was “Tools for togetherness”, which required the teams to design and implement new types of tools to promote togetherness and interaction on a human scale or more widely.
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Audiobooks can today be created with AI

The Department of Industrial Engineering and Management has published its first AI-based audiobook.
The types of love form a gradient in intensity and in how widely they're felt throughough the body. Image: Philosophical Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2023.2252464.
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Where do we feel love?

New research sheds light on where and how we feel different kinds of love
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